Henriette wyeth
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Historic home of N.C. Wyeth is on the market
When Linda Bean, granddaughter of L.L. Bean, died suddenly last spring, her goal of turning the N.C. Wyeth house at 178 South St. into a research library died with her.
“We were a month away from getting the shelves in,” said Michael Niden, a local realtor who is listing the 1.25-acre riverfront property. “Linda passed before she had a chance to transfer $3 million to endow the foundation.”
Bean created the N.C. Wyeth Research Foundation and Reading Libraries, which includes properties in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where the artist and his family lived for many years, and Port Clyde, Maine, where they spent many summers. The foundation has decided to sell the Needham property in order to fund the other two locations.
Gloria Greis, executive director of the Needham History Center and Museum, was an advisory trustee for this project. She said she met with Bean several times to lay the groundwork for the research library on South Street.
Giving a tour of the house, caretaker Niden, who lives in the modern, detached studi
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The Wyeth dynasty of painters
The name Wyeth does not reference a single artist, but rather a dynasty three generations deep of skilled American painters who have collectively set the standard for American realism. Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
N.C. Wyeth (right) and his son Andrew Wyeth in N.C. Wyeth’s studio, circa 1942. Photo: Edward J. S. Seal (1896-1955), photographer. Courtesy of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
N.C. Wyeth
Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth (1882-1945) was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the oldest of four brothers. He is said to have inherited his artistic talent and literary appreciation from his mother, who knew both Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
At the age of 21, Wyeth received one of his earliest commissions as an illustrator — what would be a bucking bronco for the Saturday Evening Post — and set out for the American West. He travelled to Colorado and New Mexico where he immersed himself in the raw environment, developing a comprehensive and nuanced u
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N. C. Wyeth
American illustrator and painter (1882–1945)
Not to be confused with Nathan C. Wyeth.
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N. C. Wyeth, c. 1920 | |
| Born | Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-10-22)October 22, 1882 Needham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 19, 1945(1945-10-19) (aged 62) Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known for | Illustration, painting |
| Notable work | Treasure Island Robinson Crusoe |
| Style | Brandywine School |
| Movement | Realism, Romanticism |
| Spouse | Carolyn Brenneman Bockius of Wilmington (m. 1906) |
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Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators.[1] Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books[2] — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known.[1] The first of these, Treasure Island, was one
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